(117 quotes found)
“Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.”
Anne Raver
“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”
Gertrude Stein
“We're all citizens of the womb, before we subdivide into sexes and shades- this side, that side.”
Ani Difranco
“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”
Andrew Jackson
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
George Jean Nathan
“As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.”
Jackie Robinson
“If ever there was a doubt about the importance of exercising the most fundamental right of citizenship, it was clearly answered by the first presidential election of the 21st century.”
Bill Clinton
“I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“Before we are citizens of any nation, we are first citizens of the human race.”
Tobi Aclaro
